Crito

For centuries, there have been laws. Laws that we made, and they are expected to be followed no matter how unjust we may think they are. We are expected to follow the law even when the authority is wrong. In the book The Trial and Death of Socrates written by Plato, his teacher Socrates, is on trial for corrupting the youth, and for not believing in the right Gods. In Socrates speech Apology, Socrates defends himself against the jury claiming that he is an innocent man and has done no wrong. In…

In Plato’s Apology, Socrates presents his audience with an argument to defend his feelings of content, calmness and honor when placed with the verdict of the death sentence. An argument is considered logically valid if the premises provided, necessarily, lead to its conclusion, and soundness of an argument can be established if its validity is recognized and all the premises are accepted as true. Socrates argues that death should be looked upon as a blessing. His claim is explicated through…

perhaps one of the most well-known dialogues written by the ancient Greek philosopher, Plato. This dialogue recounts Socrates’ final hours before his death as told by Phaedo of Elis, one of the philosophers present during that time. Along with him were Crito and two other Pythagorean philosophers, Simmias and Cebes. The main focus of this dialogue is on the subject of immortality and the soul, and whether or not the soul will survive death. Socrates provides four arguments in which he aims to…

“The law did not protect us” writes Coates in “Between the World and Me” pg. 12. Yet Socrates in discussion with Crito States that he is “victim of men, not of law” in pg. 54 of Plato’s “The Trial and Death of Socrates.” The contrast in these two quotes is indeed unfair. We are speaking of two very different historical periods and two very different circumstances but however, I believe it highlights the reality in which people of color live in today. Racism is alive, to deny its existence is to…

Plato’s Socrates Trilogy was play about the last days of Socrates. It consists of the three parts: Phaedo, The Apology, and Crito, in which they document each part of the trial, including his defense, the verdict of the jury, and the judgment of court. The story that I wanted to focus my essay is Plato’s The Apology. The overall theme I saw throughout the play, but emphasized in The Apology was wisdom. The theme of wisdom is also present in the novel’s visual depiction: Socrates by Robert…

Parks, a black woman, started the modern civil rights movement when she refused to obey the law that required her to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. Given what you know about Socrates and his arguments about the rule of law (in both the Crito and the Apology) and what you know St. Thomas Aquinas’ theory of law, compare and contrast how each would analyze whether what she did was just St. Thomas Aquinas believed that we should “do good and avoid evil.” I think the first thing to…

What is truth? This is one question that's been trying to be answered since the beginning of time. And there are many theories on what it is. In this essay I will tell you about some of the Stories that the famous philosopher Plato wrote and talk about his view and mine on the question. Some will say truth can be different for the individual and in this essay i will argue that that statement is false. Truth is truth it doesn't matter what you throw at it truth is still truth. At the start of…

fragrances of perfumes. Fragrances have been around for thousands of years; Avicenna were the first to discover the use of alcohol distillation for the extracting and preserving of scent. According to Dr. Mercola, physicians such as Hippocrates, Galen, and Crito promoted the use of therapeutic scent. Even though being promoted by such physicians, the medical use of aromatherapy was discredited because of the large push for medical drugs. Now we are seeing a large increase in the use of…

During an address in Rochester entitled What to the Slave is the Fourth of July, Frederick Douglass described the difference between the true ideas of American democracy and the misconceptions and false justifications that allowed the institution of American slavery to continue to grow. True ideas of democracy allow and celebrate each individual’s freedom and pursuit of happiness. These ideas of democracy were nonexistent on American plantations in the period of slavery. Slaves were not only…

432746 Purpose: This paper is an evaluation of Socrates’ argument from Phaedo for why philosophers should desire death. Socrates characterizes death as being the only avenue by which Philosophers may obtain wisdom. He does this by arguing that the body acts as a hindrance to one’s reason, and obscures it, making it impossible to know truths during one’s life. However, this argument unfairly characterizes the truthfulness of the senses, and therefore projects a futility of the philosopher’s…